It’s magically working out in that way, so I take that as a good sign. But it’s actually turning out to be the right length in the way I conceived it, so that’s one of those things you never know when you start. WONDERFUL and THE DEATH-RAY as well as the subject of the monograph THE ART OF DANIEL CLOWES: MODERN CARTOONIST, published in conjunction with a major retrospective at the Oakland Museum. While promoting Wilson, Clowes spoke about how, unlike his previous adaptations, Patience is about the right length to fit in a film screenplay, saying, 'It’s interesting – I thought that I was going to have to chop stuff, which would be the first time. Daniel Clowes is the acclaimed cartoonist of the seminal comic book series EIGHTBALL, and the graphic novels GHOST WORLD, DAVID BORING, ICE HAVEN, WILSON, MR. On December 13, 2016, Clowes announced that he would write the film adaptation for Patience for Focus Features. Buenaventura committed suicide in February 2016, the month before Patience's release. Clowes credits in the book Alvin Buenaventura with technical and production assistance. Patience is Clowes' longest book, at around 180 pages, and is the second by him, after Wilson, to not have been serialized first, either in Eightball - his own comic book series - or elsewhere. (Clowes' visual approach in his graphic novels tends to vary between full, even gaudy colour, and muted blues and greens that create a black-and-white effect, as in Ghost World and David Boring.) The book uses bright, contrasting colours to evoke atmosphere, as well as surrealistic sci-fi imagery, when Jack free-falls between dimensions and has nightmarish visions of himself outside time and space. The book's tagline, in a surreal and tongue-in-cheek style typical of Clowes, is, 'a cosmic timewarp deathtrip to the primordial infinite of everlasting love'.

Many years later, when grief has destroyed his life, chance leads him to discover a time machine, which he plans to use to save Patience. A science-fiction love story about time travel, it describes the misadventures of a man, Jack, after he finds his pregnant wife, Patience, murdered in their apartment. Patience (2016) is a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, published by Fantagraphics. 2016 graphic novel by Daniel Clowes Patience

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